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by Kate Evans-Correia, News Editor
During the past several weeks, we've run articles about the state of the mainframe job market, including one on the shortages of skilled mainframe professionals and one on the debate over H1-B visas. These topics resulted in unprecedented responses from our readers.
A number of responses were sent by out-of-work mainframe professionals who gave us a glimpse into job market reality. One reader said on a recent job interview he was told there were 300 qualified professionals applying for one job as a mainframe programmer. Clearly, he said, there is no job shortage. There were many more that concurred with his assessment.
If you're a mainframe professional currently out of work, let us know what your experience in looking for work in this field has been like. How many jobs have you applied for in the past year? How long does it typically take to get an interview? If you're turned down for a job, what reasons are being given? Are the salaries being offered lower than you expected or about the same? Let us know what it's really like out there. Contact Kate Evans-Correia at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Take our poll too, about the length of time you've been out of work.
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This Week's Developer Forum Brain Teaser
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Search390 member andrap has posted a question concerning FTP between UNIX and MVS.
Think you can help with this: Here is the problem I am facing exchanging data files between Unix and MVS. One set of files is in the ASCII (with CR and LF) format with fixed record length of 220 bytes. The other set is EBCDIC files with fixed length records of 420 bytes. The EBCDCI file contains no signed data and has no control characters like line feed or carriage return at the end of records. These files are uploaded by users form a web site. The application server on Unix platform FTP's these files to a staging FTP server (using secure FTP). The staging server also runs Solaris and is used to push these files to the mainframe MVS sub channel using FTP. The EBCDIC files transfer works OK but there is an issue with ASCII files whereby we have to strip off the control characters (CR and LF) form each line. If these are not taken out the datasets on the mainframe side contain extraneous and empty lines. Is there an option we can use to tell ftp to ignore the CR and LF in the source ASCII file?
Once the files are processed by mainframe it creates a set of 57 bytes fixed length datasets in EBCDIC. The dataset names describe the format (ASCII or EBCDIC) of the source files. These files are to be transferred to the Unix stating server in the format of the respective source files. When the datasets are FTP'd, both type of files loose trailing blanks and have line feed (LF) at the end of each line. The requirement is to have the EBCDIC files back with no control characters and ASCII files should have CR and LF at the end of each line. We tried using the TYPE command with E and A options respectively to get the files in proper format. Is there a command to preserver the trailing blanks and also have proper control characters in the ASCII file and no control characters in EBCDIC files.
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